This is not as crazy as it sounds. My friend Wlofie (who lives in
Sweden) considered me multilingual even if I didn't think so, because I knew
multiple computer languages (various assembly languages, C, Lua, some Pascal,
Fortran, Perl, Lisp, Forth and Erlang, plus having written my own back in
college) even if I only spoke one language (English). This, from a guy who
spoke at least four languages fluently.

Sigh. Why not twenty-five years ago? I could have saved myself
years of anguish attempting to learn German (really? six
different forms of the article the?) had this been the case when I
was in school.

Then again, I would have missed out on a teacher that sent students on
daily donut runs …

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